Chapter 22: The Gathering Storm

The Supreme Citadel’s war room filled within twenty minutes.

Commanders entered wearing half-fastened armor, carrying maps, field reports, and communication stones. The celebration banners from my coronation still hung in the upper corridors, but below them soldiers

Chapter 23: The Battle of the Southern Pass

The first clash reached us through the mountains.

A roar rolled across the southern range, followed by the distant impact of hundreds of wolves colliding inside the pass.

Alistair’s force had met Magnus’s army.

Axel paused on the river trail, listening

Chapter 24: The Judgment of the Storm

The Storm Vault lay beneath a cathedral of stone.

Axel, Clara, and I descended through a passage lined with silver carvings and black roots. Thirty Supreme guards followed until an invisible barrier stopped them near the final chamber.

Only three of us could